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Upstate coroner shaves head for cancer research

Kandy Kelley, the Pickens County coroner, had her head shaved Saturday as part of the annual Change Cancer with You Change event.

Upstate coroner shaves head for cancer research

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Updated: 12:45 PM EDT Sep 29, 2013

PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. —

Kandy Kelley, the Pickens County coroner, had her head shaved Saturday as part of the annual Change Cancer with You Change event.

Kelley lost her brother to pancreatic cancer in 2012. She said she was thinking about him while her head was shaved, as well as all the women going through chemotherapy who may be too embarrassed to leave the house.

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“I just want to bring awareness that it’s OK not to have hair,” she said. “You can be beautiful with no hair, just as you are with hair.”

This is the second year Kelley has shaved her head to fight pancreatic cancer.